Recently, the joint exploitation of cooperative diversity and NC has
become a primary design concern in distributed networks with
multiple users and multiple relays
[1]}, [2]}, [3]}, [4]}.
Motivated by this, [1]} investigated various sink
network decoding approaches for the network with intermediate node
encoding. In [2]}, linear network
coding (LNC) was applied in distributed uplink networks to
facilitate the transmission of independent information from multiple
users to a common base station. In [3]}, low-density
parity-check (LDPC) code and NC was jointly designed for a
multi-source single-relay FDMA system over uniform phase-fading
Gaussian channels. In [4]},
cooperative network coding strategies were proposed for a
relay-aided two-source two-destination wireless network with a
backhaul connection between the sources.
